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2015 NAR Home Staging Statistics

NAR Home Staging Statistics Are In!

Finally, the National Association of Realtors has surveyed real estate agents on the merits of home staging! To see the full report, click here or on the image below. In the survey, they interviewed over 2,300 real estate agents to get their opinion on the benefits of staging, who pays for the staging and how often they recommend staging to their clients.

As a home staging trainer whose sole mission has been to “make home staging an industry standard” for the last 10 years, I’m happy to say that a whopping 34% of the agents surveyed insist on ALL their homes being staged! Yippee! Before I get too excited, we stagers have a long way to go in educating the other 66% who don’t think that every listing benefits from staging, so here you go…

I’ve included some fantastic quote images below from the staging report, I want everyone to share on Facebook, Pinterest, your websites, etc…all year long. They are yours to use freely to get the word out!

Home Staging Deeply Affects Buyer’s Perspective

When Buyers Can Visualize the Product As Their Home, An Offer is Made

Even A Flawed Home Has Hope When Staging Happens

Ask the Seller How Much 11-20% More Would Affect Their Bottom Line

A Very Small Percentage of Agents Think Staging Does Not Affect Price

Together, we can grow this industry

We are not each others competition

Staging works to sell home’s faster and for more money!

XOXO – Happy Staging!

Audra Slinkey

Hope to hear from you!
1-888-563-9271

audra@homestagingresource.com

4 Steps to Finding Your “Calling”

4 Steps to Finding Your Calling

Another year went by in a flash and I’m taking a moment reflecting on what can help me to slow down time, be very intentional in my planning and focus on my “calling”. The reality is that everybody has a “calling” and your job should be finding out what that “calling” is for your life. In Stanford’s graduation ceremony this year, Nike founder Phil Knight said something very profound to the young, excited new grads:

You see, when you find what you were meant to do, what gets your blood going and keeps you up at night thinking excitedly about…you will succeed. Money usually always follows passion because it doesn’t become “work” at that point and training yourself daily in your passion helps you be become “the expert”. A key to finding a calling that can become a career is following these important 4 steps:

Step One – Identify Your Core Competencies and Strengths

What is it that you know about and are good at? What is it that people are constantly complimenting you about? Make a list, if you need to organize your thoughts. For some ideas, consider your ability to achieve, adapt, analyze, arrange, communicate, compete, connect with people, develop, empathize, focus, learn, etc…Knowing your strengths will help you to understand how to pathway your career.

Step Two – Identify and List Your Interests and Passions

What is it that you love to do? What really gets you excited about life? What gets your blood boiling? Make a list of the things that you do in your free time, when nobody is watching, and consider whether or not there may be something deeper to that desire. Many times the things you love to do, correspond to the talents that you have, so look for connections between what your talented/strong at and how it corresponds to what you are passionate about.

Step Three – If Fear and Money Were Not A Factor What Would You Do?

Okay, here’s the tough part…taking fear out out of the equation. How do you do that? You need to face the fears and break them down in you mind. What is the worst that can happen if you pursue your “calling”? Is the consequence of inaction, better than the risk of trying? I love this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Step Four – Take Action and Get Busy!

Just sitting and dreaming does not make things happen. Take the first steps you need to move closer to your calling for 2015. The good news is that you have the Internet and so many ways to explore and learn about new things. Make this year the year you grow, learn and create!

If you love design, know that there is a home staging industry that would love to take that talent and help you do something GREAT with it! At the Home Staging Resource, we are focused on giving you the tools, strategies, forms and training that allows you to never reinvent the wheel and focus on what you’re great at…staging and design.

I just got this email from Pramiti of BlueGrape Staging who has just been nominated for the RESA Rising Star Finalist of 2015:

Pramiti just took the plunge and followed her calling LESS than a year ago by becoming a home stager! Don’t let another year go by to follow your calling.